When I listened to a bit of Rush last week, he didn’t know who Doug Giles was. I suppose he did a quick search and found Doug’s column called, “Conservative Christian Columnist Doug Giles Endorses Barack Obama.” He mustn’t have read it. It’s pure sarcasm.
I love Rush, but I wish he had done his Doug Giles research off the air. I’m sure it was a bit of a blow to Doug’s ego when Rush was saying, “Who the hell is Doug Giles? I never heard of him.”
Once again showing that sarcasm isn't a good way to express political opinion, especially in print. (It is too easy to misinterpret without the voice inflection and facial expression that accompanies spoken sarcasm.)
Sarcasm is good for putting someone down and putting them in their place, and the targets of sarcasm often deserve every bit of contempt that sarcasm can deliver. However, sarcasm often says as much about the person using it as it does about their target. Lets just say that sarcastic people are not the most popular or well liked people.